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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 93

Then they asked a native who was visiting them, whose home was on the other side of the island: “O Paiea, do you know who this is?”

Who acts: people, home, you · What happens: ask, visit, be, know · To what, where: native, people, other side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, home, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

advmodnsubjdetobjnsubjauxccompobjpunctnmod:possnsubjcopcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodpunctpunctcaseoblpunctauxnsubjccompccompdetcoppunctpunctrootThenADVtheyPRONaskedVERBaDETnativeADJwhoPRONwasAUXvisitingVERBthemPRON,PUNCTwhosePRONhomeNOUNwasAUXonADPtheDETotherADJsideNOUNofADPtheDETislandNOUN:PUNCT“PUNCTOADPPaieaPROPN,PUNCTdoAUXyouPRONknowVERBwhoPRONthisDETisAUX?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 askedadvmod
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 askednsubj
3askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 nativedet
5nativenativeADJDegree=Pos3 askedobj
6whowhoPRONPronType=Rel8 visitingnsubj
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 visitingaux
8visitingvisitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 askedccomp
9themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs8 visitingobj
10,,PUNCT_17 sidepunct
11whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel12 homenmod:poss
12homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing17 sidensubj
13wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 sidecop
14ononADP_17 sidecase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 sidedet
16otherotherADJDegree=Pos17 sideamod
17sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing8 visitingobl
18ofofADP_20 islandcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 islanddet
20islandislandNOUNNumber=Sing17 sidenmod
21::PUNCT_28 knowpunct
22“"PUNCT_28 knowpunct
23OofADPAbbr=Yes24 Paieacase
24PaieaPaieaPROPNNumber=Sing28 knowobl
25,,PUNCT_24 Paieapunct
26dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 knowaux
27youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs28 knownsubj
28knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf3 askedccomp
29whowhoPRONPronType=Rel28 knowccomp
30thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem29 whodet
31isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 whocop
32??PUNCT_28 knowpunct
33”"PUNCT_28 knowpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: askpastpeoplea nativethenvn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent native=Recipient clause=Topic
2visitpast · progressivepeoplewho nsubjvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
3ispastthe other side's homethe other sideof the islandtree rules
4know in a quotepresent · do-supportyouof Paieavn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of paiea=Stimulus
5is a in a quotepresenttree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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